AMS/NOAA Cooperative Program for Earth System Education (CPESE)

CPESE is designed to enhance public understanding of the fluid Earth system emphasizing the atmospheric, oceanic, and hydrologic sciences and to promote activity that will result in greater human resource diversity in these sciences and in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

CPESE assists NOAA in the advancement of its goals directed towards environmental assessment and prediction, protection of life and property, and the fostering of global environmental stewardship. NOAA's success in meeting its mission is highly dependent upon synergistic relationships between it and the users of its products and services. CPESE nurtures this synergy through precollege teacher, introductory undergraduate, and general educational activity. Fundamental to CPESE are:

• Breadth - Demonstrating the comprehensive need for describing and predicting changes in the Earth's environment, and conserving and wisely managing the Nation's coastal and marine resources.
• Visibility - Increasing public awareness of the ways environmental assessment, prediction and stewardship touch the lives of all Americans every day. ·
• Diversity - Promoting educational activity and outreach to attract members of groups underrepresented in science and technology to study and consider careers in those fields, including those for which NOAA has employment needs and opportunities.

CPESE activity includes:

• Offering of DataStreme Atmosphere, a national teacher-enhancement course (already with 7000 alumni) on weather and climate for precollege teachers via Local Implementation Teams (LITs). The course is delivered partially online with emphasis on use of current NOAA products.
• Presenting DataStreme Ocean teacher-enhancement course via LITs on a national scale which focuses on the ocean in the Earth system.
• Conducting the Promoting Minority Participation in Science initiative emphasizing the training of teachers who are members of groups underrepresented in science and/or teach in schools with 30% or more minority-student populations.

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